San Francisco group offers incentives to sign up for solar

The Copenhagen talks may have ended on a whimper, but that doesn’t mean we can’t individually continue to explore ways to extend the planet’s lifespan, even just a tad.

With such considerations in mind, One Block Off The Grid (1BOG) and groSolar are offering a discount to Bay Area homeowners over the next month to bite the bullet and install solar panels. At the same time, they are launching a pilot program with Solar Richmond which will provide 4-week vocational solar training and soft employment skills to low-income Bay Area residents for green-collar jobs.

1BOG, launched last year in San Francisco, claims to be able to help residents save up to 20% off purchasing solar panels for their homes by buying solar as a group. 1BOG organizes interested homeowners into a large solar buying group to negotiate lowest solar group discount rates from a selected installer partner so that, in their words, “community members can enjoy the best deal for solar power without having to become solar experts themselves”.

Bay Area 1BOG members are being offered a discounted price of $5.53/watt from groSolar until January 31 along with an opt-in opportunity to support a graduate of Solar Richmond’s green-collar jobs training program.

For more information, to get an online estimate, or to sign up, visit 1BOG’s San Francisco page on the 1BOG website.